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Syria, Ukraine, and parallels between autocrats - with Jean-Pierre Filiu - Thinking in Dark Times #8
Explaining Ukraine
The Aurelian Logic in Syria
In Syria, the Aurelian logic went so far that of course, nobody speaks about the war, it's like in Ukraine with this cold military, special operation. But imagine that in Syria, the areas that are bombed, bombed by the Russian force, are called deconflicting zone. And that's when years there, defenders are surrendering, it's called reconciliation agreement and so on and so forth. There was this huge concert for peace in the ruins of Palmyra, in the Syrian desert, with Putin appearing virtually in 2016,. While the Russian force was bombing any freedom fight area, while letting America, France and the UK fighting ISIS and fighting the real bad guys, the
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